Re: News - Bafta Game Awards names Dishonoured as best game

Dishonoured was great fun. I don't have a PS3 to play journey sadly, but I know it's meant to be one of the best games on the console.
Far Cry was excellent, even with the horrific storyline.
Thomas was Alone, Danny Wallace. I'm surprised, but not unimpressed. He did do an excellent job, but I would never have expected such a small game to get a Bafta.

Re: News - Bafta Game Awards names Dishonoured as best game

Originally Posted by Willzzz

Anyway, loved Dishonoured, although it did a get a bit easy once you knew your way around.

Keep getting Steam "special offers" on this - is it any good? Looked at a couple of YouTube vids and it looks like an Assassin's Creed 2 "homage" with added magical powers. Could do with something to make up for the disappointment (so far) that is AC3.

Originally Posted by OilSheikh

BAFTA stands for British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
Why are they trying to do video game awards ?

If memory serves me rightly, the argument was that the big budget game titles have "production values" that are big/good enough to sit alongside films/tv's. Probably reasonable, given that you've got scriptwriters, voice and mocap actors, score writers, etc on games, tv and film.
More justifiable than having Israel in Eurovision imho.

Originally Posted by OilSheikh

Does British TV suck that much ?

If you point proudly at reality shows as the "highlight" of your TV output then yes - British TV does suck. On the other hand I'll argue that there's a lot of less popular shows that are pretty good. Oh, and I'll argue to my last breath that UK kids and news programmes are better than their US equivalents. What I'd like to know is where have all the decent comedy shows gone - there seem to have been a lot more decent shows in the past. (sorry, off topic I know).

What does really annoy me is the amount of these back-slapping "awards" shows we're getting.

Re: News - Bafta Game Awards names Dishonoured as best game

Originally Posted by crossy

Keep getting Steam "special offers" on this - is it any good? Looked at a couple of YouTube vids and it looks like an Assassin's Creed 2 "homage" with added magical powers. Could do with something to make up for the disappointment (so far) that is AC3.

I found it a very slick, satisfying game. You find yourself dragged into the world and the story quite convincingly.
It is great fun exploring the world when you aren't sure what you will find, there are lots of little touches that make it feel quite special.

There is some replay value with two different endings and many different ways to complete each mission. What does limit it, is that once you find the easy way of doing each mission the challenge level drops massively.

Mind you I'd have been quite happy paying the money just for the first play-through alone.